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How it works

Kasmota connects you to participating U.S. dealerships. The dealership is the seller. Our job is to verify the specific vehicle before any of your money reaches them, and to show you every charge separately.

1. Find a vehicle

Search inventory from dealerships we have verified. Each listing shows the dealership's own asking price in U.S. dollars, with an estimated naira equivalent for orientation. Our fees are never folded into the vehicle price.

  • Filter by make, model, year, mileage, budget, body style and whether the dealership ships to Nigeria.
  • Each listing carries an availability status and the time the dealership last confirmed it.
  • If a confirmation has gone stale, the listing shows “Verification pending” rather than a reassuring but outdated badge.

2. We confirm the vehicle is really there

When you start a purchase, we ask the dealership to confirm that specific VIN, at that specific price, is still available. That confirmation carries an expiry, so a stale answer cannot be used to take your money.

This step exists because the most common failure in cross-border car buying is paying for a vehicle that was already sold.

3. Add an inspection or ask us to negotiate

Both are optional, separately priced services with their own terms. An inspection sends an inspector to the vehicle to record its condition with photographs. Negotiation has us approach the dealership on your behalf against a recorded baseline price.

An inspection records the condition observed at a point in time. It is not a mechanical warranty, guarantee of future reliability, or a guarantee of dealer performance.

4. Accept the itemised summary and pay

Before you pay you see a line-by-line breakdown: the vehicle price, our service fee, any inspection or negotiation fee, and shipping if the dealership quotes it. Each line states who receives the money and whether it is refundable. The amount you owe is fixed at that moment.

  • Switching the display currency afterwards does not change what you owe.
  • Payment instructions are generated by the system and shown only on your authenticated purchase page.

Our staff will never ask you to pay a personal account. If anyone does, it is not us.

5. Verification before the dealership is settled

Your payment being received and the dealership being paid are two different events. In between, we re-verify that the vehicle is still available, that the VIN matches, that the price matches what you accepted, that the dealership has authority and documentation to sell it, and that your inspection decision has been recorded. Settlement then requires an authorised internal approval.

  • If verification fails, the transaction is cancelled and a refund is initiated under the published refund policy.
  • Every check, and who approved the settlement, is recorded on an immutable audit trail.

6. Documents, shipping and delivery

The dealership completes the sale paperwork and, where it offers export shipping, updates each milestone. You follow the whole thing from your account, and you can raise a case at any point.

All shipping dates are estimates. Customs outcomes in Nigeria are determined by the authorities, not by us.

Wherever you are in Nigeria

We serve buyers nationwide across Nigeria. Dealers ship to a Nigerian port, and delivery onward to your city is arranged as part of your transaction — you do not need to live near one of our offices to buy through us.

  • Walk-in offices in Lagos and Port Harcourt, with published addresses and real staff.
  • Vehicles arrive through Lagos (Apapa), Lagos (Tin Can), Onne, Warri, whichever the dealership ships to.
  • If you are not near an office, everything can be completed online or by phone, and you still get the same recorded process.
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